During the days ahead, the commissioners will hear from selected supporters and opponents of the arrangement along with a response at the end of next week, as part of a hearing that incorporates a range of applicants seeking to establish or preserve a similar deal.

The channel is arguing it deserves mandatory carriage, which will add about $4 per year — based on the wholesale cost of 18 cents per month — to the bill of every TV subscriber in Canada.

The CRTC will have to decide whether it will grant Sun News that mandatory carriage or not. If the answer is no, it’s likely the station will fold as its executives have reported the station is losing $17-million a year.

Sun News kicked off its presentation with this ten-and-a-half-minute video. Below, see some tweets and observations from the follow-up questions from the commission.

… sour grapes over the fact that Sun News was taken off Rogers Channel 15 in favour of the Rogers-owned CityNews Channel … ratings declined to one-sixth of what they were … yet the only reason it got that spot in the first place was because of the failed Toronto 1 channel that Quebecor scooped up for cheap after its owner Craig Media went broke